2 most important powershell commands you must know before learning azure powershell

Cmdlets

Specialized commands in the PowerShell environment are Cmdlets that implement specific functions. These follow a Verb-Noun naming pattern, such as Get-help.

Get-Help

Get-Help cmdlet provides basic information about articles, commands and other powershell concepts.

This is the first command that you should learn before you go further into subject. It works like search bar to the powershell scripting language.

Understanding importance of the cmdlet

Usually, when you open powershell console all you need to do is hit a command to get your desired results, right.

Let`s say…

You forgot the command but you know what  information is required for you. Enough!! with this you can complete the task.

For example,

One day, Ram wants to get the all processes running in his system. So, he opened powershell console and to his surprise he forgot the command that he needs to use.

He didn’t worry at all as he know the use of get-help command. He hit command as follows

C:\>get-help process

Then it listed all the commands that are related to word process just as below. On seeing the results, he recollected the command and that’s it he done with this work.

get-help process command

This is why get-help is first command that you should know at the earliest.

Knowing the right command for the purpose is not enough. Knowing the usage of command is also most important factor.

To do this, Ram hit the following command that he chosen in the above result.

C:\>Get-help get-process

It gives structure of get-process command that need to executed. In that we can mandatory and optional parameters of the command.

Result of  Get-help Get-process command

At last, he got to know about command he started using and getting the results as below. 

Get-Process command result

And the last but not least is get-Member.

Get-Member:

It gets the members, the properties and methods that are associated with command.

Using this cmdlet, you can come to know advance features of any command. Knowing this stuff, you can play with any command.

Lets see how Ram use this cmdlet…

C:\>Get-process | get-member

It gives all the processes running in the system as below. He finds all properties and functions associate with it. 

properties of Get-process command

Now, he wants to find process ID of some process (Example: explorer process noticed in the result of get-process command)

He used following command using property called ID that is listed in the above result.

$(get-process explorer).id

It brings following result.

process details with get-process command

getting process id with using property of powershell object

Conclusion:

These 2 commands are crucial in powershell scripting learning process. If you want to master it practice these commands with different cmdlets. So, you will get good grip and no need to mug up.

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